Free companion guide · PDF
The ache beneath the achievement.
A field guide for Christian leaders learning to turn from performance to sonship, rest, blessing, and formation. You can be called and still be tired. That tiredness is not weakness — it's an invitation.
- A ten-question self-assessment to name where you actually are.
- Six movements: Self-Assessment, Identity, Sonship, Sabbath, Blessing, and Next Steps.
- Reflection prompts, short prayers, and discussion questions.
- Use it alone over a week, with a friend over coffee, or with your team over six meetings.
Written to be read alongside About Face — and it stands on its own.
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What's inside
Six movements. One turn.
This is not a program or a checklist. It's a small doorway — a set of pages that help you stop, name what's really happening underneath, and begin the turn.
The Self-Assessment
Ten honest questions. No score, no judgment — just a mirror to name where you actually are.
Identity
Remember who you are before what you do. Four prompts for the part of you that keeps trying to earn what was already given.
Sonship
Return to a Father who is not disappointed. Where orphan leadership shows up in private, and how the turn begins.
Sabbath
Rest as identity, not recovery. A practical look at what a 24-hour rhythm of stopping could hold this season.
Blessing
Receive what no performance can earn — and stop leading a family, a team, or a church on a half-received blessing.
Prayers & Next Steps
Short prayers for the road, discussion questions for a group or a marriage, and where to go from here.
Who it's for
For the leader who looks fruitful and feels tired.
Pastors and ministry leaders
Carrying weight no one sees, leading others into a peace you haven't fully received yourself.
Builders and entrepreneurs
Running on fumes, quietly wondering who you are on the days nothing is being produced.
Fathers and emerging leaders
Leading at home from a half-empty tank, carrying responsibilities you never asked for.
A word from Mike
The turn doesn't happen because you tried harder. It happens because someone helps you stop performing long enough to remember who you are.Michael Obadja · Author of About Face